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That is almost exactly the same as my fairly new PowerBook. The only difference I see is that I went for the 120gb 5400RPM drive instead of the 100gb 7200RPM drive. I simply chose capacity over speed, as I want to be able to store all of the photos I take on a 2 or 3 week overseas vacation.

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Actually, I have found at least the older PowerBooks to be very heavy compared to anything but a thinkpad. My mom has one and it is about 15 pounds, but an inch thick. Now they are making them like iBooks, thicker and lighter (and they run cooler, that one will burn you if you try to use it as a "laptop"), but the old ones were HEAVY. Also, iBooks are built better now. Although they are the slower models in the group, they keyboards and trackpads now work great, and the keys don't fall off.

If you are going for crazy good everything, fill the 2 RAM slots with 1 GB a piece.

And get the best video card possible...

I have bluetooth are rarely use it. Actually, never in the 2 months I have had my iBook have I used bluetooth at all. I know it comes standard but I don't think you will use it. But it does come standard. I would have a wireless mouse, but I like the idea of being able to run everything off of 1 charger/battery-- the laptop itself. Having to charge the mouse or replace teh batteries is just not something that appeals to me. Not to mention I picked up an optical mouse for $15 that almost works. It glitches and randomly flys the cursor to the other side of the screen while you use it some of the time. I guess there really is an advantage to mice that cost more. BTW, I will never touch another mouse w/ball, wired or not. Even my cheap optical mouse is great... you don't have to clean it...

If not, tell me what I could do to make it better. I am planning to get this on December 26th so I need advise soon. Thanks alot.

If it's still an option, get the video upgrade, standard was 64mb when I bought my PowerBook 1.5GHz and I opted for the 128mb Radeon, that's one thing that can never be upgraded. I also did the 5400 rpm drive, the 7200rpm drives weren't available then or I would have gotten that.

If not, tell me what I could do to make it better. I am planning to get this on December 26th so I need advise soon. Thanks alot.

If it's still an option, get the video upgrade, standard was 64mb when I bought my PowerBook 1.5GHz and I opted for the 128mb Radeon, that's one thing that can never be upgraded. I also did the 5400 rpm drive, the 7200rpm drives weren't available then or I would have gotten that.

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We don't have any idea what chip Apple will be using, but I can confidently say it will not be a P3. The P3 and G4 for that matter are old tech. Apple will probably be using the Pentium M but it could be an as of yet unknown chip and aren't there rumors about the yonah chip.

We don't have any idea what chip Apple will be using, but I can confidently say it will not be a P3. The P3 and G4 for that matter are old tech. Apple will probably be using the Pentium M but it could be an as of yet unknown chip and aren't there rumors about the yonah chip.